If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines. You say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows. This is why I am afraid, you say that you love me too.

“And the rest of the stuff doesn’t really interest me… I have a one-track mind, all I’m really interested in… Is love.”

Cassavetes’ films are every bit as searing and brash as he was, but in this brief clip from Martin Scorsese’s A Personal Journey Through American Movies, Cassavetes candidly reveals that his career was ultimately devoted to the pursuit of something tender beneath it all.